Saintly Explorer
Who is St. Brendan
The viking outlaw who first started settlements in Greenland
Who is Eric the Red
The United Kingdom country the white natives were from
Hint: Starts with W
What is Wales. Welsh people
America gets its name from this Italian explorer who discovered the Amazon river
Who is Amerigo Vespucci
The country St. Brendan is from
The Christian viking who sailed to North America
Who is Leif Ericsson
Who is Madoc
King Fernando and Queen Isabel were the rulers of this country that funded Columbus's voyage
What is Spain
While the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon was searching for the Fountain of Youth, he searched and ended up dying in this modern day US state
What is Florida
The Land St. Brendan and the other monks were looking for. Hint: think of what you say when you keep a secret
What is Land of Promise of the Saints
The name the Christian Viking gave to the land he and his crew shortly stayed at in North America
Hint: Starts with a V
What is Vinland
This Cherokee chief told an early Tennessee governor about white people who built fortresses in different areas of the south
Hint: rhymes with medulla oblongata
Oconostota
Name two of the ships Columbus and his crew sailed on to the new world
What is the Santa Maria, Nina, Pinta
The name the Spanish Explorer gave the Pacific Ocean after being the first to European to see it and document it
What is the South Sea
The type of umbrella shaped boat the Irish Monks sailed in
Hint: starts with a 'C'
The modern day country the Christian Viking visited
What is Canada
Who are the Mandans
The country Columbus was born in
This Spanish captain and his men climbed a high peak in Panama and were the first Europeans to see and document the Pacific Ocean
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Explain how we know St. Brendan's voyage more than likely was a true event
In 1976 a British navigation scholar named Tim Severin sailed from Ireland to North America in a coracle and had similar experiences to the stories told by St. Brendan and his crew
Thorfinn Karlsefni, another viking, tried to settle the lands Leif Ericsson found. What did him and his crew call the native people living there
What is Skraelings
Once European settlers started to reach across America they brought diseases. This disease wiped out the native tribe that was said to be the welsh people
He knew there were great riches and resources that would be available to the people of Europe then. He wanted money to fund a crusade to retake the Holy Land
What did the discovery of the Pacific ocean mean for Columbus's voyage that he never knew before he died
That Columbus was not in the Indies like he thought and instead had found a whole new continent